Edgar Degas Quotes
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
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If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
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I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
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Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Drawing is your understanding of form.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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The true traveler never arrives.
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Instantaneity is photography.
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